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A Lurker's History of Paradox and the Paradox Community * by Stacy Rowley [Editor's Note: All the graphics in this article (except the two icons) are links to a larger version of the same image. Placing your mouse pointer over the graphic will show popup and status bar info about what the photograph is. The larger images open in the same smaller dialog window, so you might wish to leave that window open while reading the article.] The Early DOS Days: the People (the Community) During the few years of Paradox 3.0 and 3.5 (and 3.51), there was an outpouring of activities and contributors. During the early years there were a number of people entering the Paradox world. While some arrived from the mainframe world, many came from various fields and lacked computer experience. Also during these years, local computer groups had formed and were spawning Special Interest Groups (SIGs) including those for Paradox. LAPALS started in Los Angeles with Brian Smith, David Berg, Tim Colling, Leon Chalnick, Phil Wolfe, and later, John Moore and Wolf Kadavanich. There were geographic sections, including San Diego, and LAPALS published Instant Scripts, a monthly newsletter with technical content that was available to more than members. In New York City, Clare Chase, Alan Zenreich, and Jim Kocis were among the founders of the NYPC Paradox SIG. When able to attend, Zenreich ran a Power Users' session at the end of the meeting, which always seemed to contain "nuggets." Starting in 1990 and continuing for several years, the Zenreich family hosted a summer picnic, to which came people from the SIG and from some far-ranging home bases. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Alan Zenreich once stated, "Paradox is easy to use. Databases are difficult." With all the newbies around, the CompuServe forum was school and recess rolled in to one. Dan Ehrmann pulled together a paper on data normalization that was placed in a forum library and contributed a needed education base. Helper elf and psychologist Dr. Don Schubert (a.k.a. Dr. Kranky) monitored the temperature of the forum and helped keep it in control as the resident shrink. Borland brought Don on as the first member of TeamB. Don learned Paradox in part from the forum and used interactive Paradox in his practice. Between patients he would keep abreast of forum threads and inject his humor. Later on, Don went to work for awhile at Borland in the later Borland days of Paradox for Windows. He died about 1999. ![]() ![]() Next: The Early DOS Days: the People (the product add-ins) Discussion of this article |
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